Panthers hiring a head of football research

[ellis]

This various faces of Panthers analytics for the better part of two decades. 

 

[jmerryson]

22 hours ago, sml1950 said:

The Panthers have been using analytics for years (Riverboat Ron) going to the Sloan Conference, wearing gps, etc.  This is either a replacement position or formalization of the separate areas . Baseball has adopted  SABERmetrics and basketball has APBRmetrics and these decision-making methods have drastically changed how these games are played.  Basketball is now played beyond the arc and baseball is HRs, KOs, no stealing, no sac.  Get ready for this to happen in football.  Pro Football Focus rates CBs as most valuable, Sloan gave the Raiders best move of the year for trading Mack for draft picks vs paying 23 million.  Neither of these would be considered true by traditionalists.  Who knows what the future will look like, but it won’t be your father’s NFL

Panthers have had a couple guys leading the analytics effort for the past 4-6 years, one for sports science analytics and one for general football analytics. One of them left the team and I think they are restructuring the department now with him gone. Tepper is sure to invest more in it now than they did in the past.